The Perk of Being A Wallflower

Charlie doesn’t have many friends; in fact, his only friend Michael killed himself during junior high school. He is left with his mom, his dad, his older brother and sister, and the only person who ever called him special, his Aunt Helen.

Charlie’s Aunt Helen died as well, and Charlie was really close to her. He was crushed. Charlie loved his family a lot, but he needed something more in life, something normal. Charlie was by no means normal. I believe he had some type of anxiety disorder. He would thing about things too much, bad things. When he was a lone, and wasn’t distracted by anything, he focused on the bad. He had panic attacks, he would start freaking out, he couldn’t breath, and sometimes he would go into a coma like state, where he would just sit there. He wouldn’t talk, move or react. He was just lifeless.

Charlie is the main character of the book. The book goes through his life in a letterform. I think that it is really amazing how personal letters can be. I t

I think that one of the big themes of the book that really isn’t revealed until the end is that we are who we are for a lot of reasons, and maybe we’ll never know most of them. Even though we can’t choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. Charlie’s life has not exactly been Beaver Cleaver. For a long time he tried to just push that away, forced his mind to forget things. Finally he realized that no matter what happened, he couldn’t change that in his life, but he can change what’s going to happen in his life. That made all the difference for Charlie.

The book never actually tells you where they are, because Charlie wishes to remain anonymous to the person he is sending the letters to. To do this, he leaves out details giving any clues to who he actually is. Although, a lot of the book takes place at Charlie’s high school, at his house, and at his friends houses.

I think that Charlie’s letters are an inspiration for high school students. We all go through stress, and bad relationships, and the struggle to be accepted. This book is based on today, a high school

Some topics in this essay:
Beaver Cleaver, Aunt Helen, Charlie Sam, Steven Chbosky, Charlie Charlie, Sam Patrick, Perks Wallflower, school student, students stress, trying blame, charlie’s life, sam patrick, aunt helen,